Re: Mapping text files

[Bruce Korb]

On 9/20/06, Paul Eggert <address@hidden> wrote:
> > the correct response is something along the lines of EINVAL
> > whenever strlen(filedata) != filestat.st_size.
>
> The GNU coding standards disagree: they say "Utilities reading files
> should not drop NUL characters".

Wait.  I get it.  The GNU coding standards say that, but really
mean that "Utilities reading arbitrary, non-application-specific files should
not drop NUL characters".  Applications that have text input files are
certainly free to require that their application-specific files be NUL-free.
That was where Miss Communication was hiding.